On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 4:33 AM, WereSpielChequers <
werespielchequers(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Otherwise, I haven't fact checked the whole thing,
but one problem with the
second sentence:
*Across the world, mobile pageviews to our free knowledge websites
increased by 170 million <http://reportcard.wmflabs.org/>.*
This needs a time element, otherwise it comes across as not really in the
same league as most stats about Wikipedia. The previous sentence was about
a whole year's activity and the following one about monthly activity. So it
reads like an annual figure or an increase on an annual figure. But the
stats it links to imply something closer to a weekly figure. From my
knowledge of the stats I suspect it could be an increase in raw downloads
of 170m a day or week or unique downloaders of 170m a week. Any of those
would actually be rather impressive.
I saw this too and was wondering about the same. I think your guess is
plausible
that this refers to an increase of 170 million in *weekly* mobile
pageviews (for context, mobile web pageviews on all Wikimedia sites for
December 2016, normalized to 30 days, were 7.4 billion, up 11.6% from
December 2015
<https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Product&oldid=2399861#Reading_Audience>).
Even so, there are some details of the calculation that I'm still curious
about, but in any case, the increase in mobile pageviews remains a real and
notable trend worth calling out (cf.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/
wiki/File:Wikimedia_mobile_pageviews_year-over-year_comparis
on_(since_May_2013).png ).
BTW, the linked report card is deprecated, as one may infer from the fact
the last numbers date from August 2016. Here is a current pageviews
dashboard maintained by the WMF Analytics team:
https://analytics.
wikimedia.org/dashboards/vital-signs/#projects=all/metrics=Pageviews
(click "Break Down by Site" to restrict to mobile views).
For the definition of pageviews in general, refer to
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Page_view .
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Tilman Bayer
Senior Analyst
Wikimedia Foundation
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